About Victoria Maizes MD
Victoria Maizes, MD, is executive director of the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (Center), and professor of medicine, family and community medicine, and public health at the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson.
Dr. Maizes has stewarded the growth of the Program in Integrative Medicine from four fellows annually to a UA Center of Excellence training with more than 1000 fellows and residents a year. She helped develop the curriculum in integrative medicine and pioneered multiple educational innovations including Integrative Family Medicine and Integrative Medicine in Residency, two national models for educating primary care physicians. She is the founding education co-chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine.
She graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University, received her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco, completed her residency in family medicine at the University of Missouri, Columbia, and fulfilled her fellowship in integrative medicine at UA.
Dr. Maizes lectures worldwide to academic and community audiences on integrative medical education, women's health, healthy aging, nutrition, environmental issues, and cancer. She is the co-editor of the Oxford University Press textbook, Integrative Women’s Health, and authored Be Fruitful: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Fertility and Giving Birth to a Healthy Child (Scribner 2013).
In 2009, she was named one of the world’s 25 intelligent optimists by ODE magazine.
